“So, your father taught you how to be this perfect?” I couldn’t shut my fucking mouth, not after hearing that. It didn’t matter how fucking stupid I knew this was. I couldn’t stop. “Maybe I should thank him.”
“Well, you can’t. He’s rotting in prison for life.”
“A shame.” This time, I kissed the fresh tears instead of feasting on them. I didn’t understand why she was still crying. It couldn’t just be that she was angry. What else was it?
“My father murdered alphas. That doesn’t bother you?” Lucy tried to shove my face away, but I wasn’t going to let her get any farther away than she already was.
Closing my eyes, I turned my head and kissed the palm of her hand, reminding myself I wasn’t allowed to bite her.
Not even a scratch on her palm. Don’t bite her, you stupid fucking idiot. She’s not yours.
She would be soon enough.
But not yet.
I snarled in frustration and glared at her even when I knew this wasn’t her fault. I didn’t care. I wanted my fucking teeth in her flesh, but my pheromones would have to do.
“Cassius, answer me.” Her serious tone affected me almost as much as Liam’s did, but I hadn’t expected it to turn me into this tortured creature who’d do anything to keep her close.
Maybe I should have, because Liam had done the exact same shit.
“Why would it bother me?” I managed.
Releasing her throat wasn’t an option. I tightened my hold on her, and pressed down on her hip with my other hand, pleased to see her bite the inside of her cheek in response.
I didn’t understand why, but every time one of us released her throat, she panicked, and that was the last thing I wanted right now. “Do you think I care who your parents are?”
“Aren’t you afraid I’m going to end up just like him?!” Oh, she was fucking furious with me.
I grinned as she thrashed around, rubbing that delicious pussy all up and down my cock as she tried to get away. Her tits were bouncing around and water was getting everywhere – soaking her hair and plastering it to her face, but her eyes…
She was burning alive and I’d never seen anything more enchanting than the destruction that look on her face promised me. “I could kill you,” she threatened.
There wasn’t a single weapon she could use right now, but I believed her.
“You could,” I agreed.
Forcing her pussy to slide back down my cock almost broke her out of this little tantrum, but I didn’t want to distract her too much since she was so fucking cute when she was angry.
I leaned forward and kissed the spot where her jaw met her throat. “Maybe I want you to kill me.”
“You fucking idiot.” Lucy dug her nails into my skin until blood slid down to drip into the bath, staining it red. “Why would you want that?”
“What better way to die than at the hands of my omega?” I grinned and caught her bottom lip between my teeth, tugging just hard enough to break open that split lip again. “If you want to kill me, then I guess I deserve to die.”
“You’re not in your right mind,” she hissed, licking the blood from her bottom lip. “You’re all hopped up on pheromones and have no idea what you’re saying.”
Maybe she was right, but I didn’t really care.
“You’re starving, aren’t you?” The rage in her eyes faded away at my question and I could see the fear trickling back in. “Let me feed you, Lucy. However you need me to. That’s why I’m here – it’s why I’m an alpha.”
When those tears started pouring down her face again, I finally understood what was going on and I felt my grin practically split my face in half.
This…this I could handle.
“Let me be your alpha, Lucy, and you can have whatever you want. Even my death.”
Before she could reject me, I kissed her hard enough that blood gushed into my mouth, and it left such bitter despair on my tongue that it reminded me of the way she smelled.